Danish architectural firm COBE will be leaving their mark on a new mixed use development in Toronto. A client group consisting of Dream Unlimited, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited and Tricon Capital Group has commissioned COBE to develop a large...

A former factory turned intentionally raw gallery, Toronto’s new Museum of Contemporary Art was crafted for the city it serves, not Instagram
When Peter Clewes, principal of the Toronto firm architectsAlliance, was hired to turn an abandoned factory...

A proposed new University of Toronto building at 90 Queen’s Park Crescent will bring together academic and public spaces to create a hub for urban and cultural engagement.
…The nine-storey building will be designed by world-renowned architects...

The University of Toronto has submitted plans to the city for a new building just south of the Royal Ontario Museum, where the old McLaughlin Planetarium now stands.
And while it’s a university building, containing a Tetris stack of classrooms and...

Embracing both tradition and modernity, Toronto has a slew of new boutique hotels and one-off restaurants while sympathetically reusing former industrial spaces.
Toronto, or ‘Torono’ as its inhabitants would have it, is North America’s best-kept...

With the popularity of walkable urban environments on the rise, more developers are turning to mixed-use projects, usually bringing together some combination of office, housing, and shops, sometimes with a hotel or community-serving uses. The...

Believe. That’s the title of the exhibition that reopened the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto this weekend. But believe in what?
In the power of art to bring people together, to think across the neighbourhood and across national borders. The...

From the Jurors’ Report:
Every two years, the City of Toronto Urban Design Awards program provides an opportunity to assess the progress of the city’s built environment, and to recognize those buildings that strengthen the public realm. The program...

Sam Crignano, president of Cityzen Development Group, beams with excitement at the prospect of his latest condo creation — 158 Front. The developer behind the L-Tower and Pier 27 condos, Crignano is billing this development as an especially rare...

Waterfront Toronto has a long roster of slow-burning projects on its list. But they recently put the pedal to the metal on one of these endeavours— the redevelopment of a 14.3-hectare site bordered by the Don River.
The accelerated developement was...

Freed Developments and CD Capital are following on the heels of their successful 155 Redpath project with a sister tower called 150 Redpath Condominiums, to be built just across the street from it. Located just north of Eglinton Avenue between Yonge...

Recognized for their "swiss cheese" rooftops, Lanterra Developments' ICE Condominiums development consists of a 57-story and a 67-story tower which have expanded Toronto's downtown skyline south over the past four years. Designed by...

The architecture of spectacle now taking shape on Toronto’s waterfront will be nothing less than a stage set for the 21st-century city. It began in 2010 with Sugar Beach and Sherbourne Common, but has since been taken up by the private sector, most...

Renovation Award – St. James Cathedral Centre
Nothing impressed the 2014 awards jury (which met last July to review 134 submissions) as much as the sheer diversity of the submissions across the categories, and the overall high quality of the work....

The new St. James Cathedral Centre stands in the shadow of the Cathedral Church of St. James. The new administrative and outreach headquarters for the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, described by urban affairs journalist Christopher Hume as “a marvel...

The timing couldn’t be better. Just when Toronto seemed hopelessly mired in official idiocy and public self-hatred, along comes the West Don Lands to remind us the city has a future after all.
An afternoon spent wandering the new neighbourhood is...

Christopher Hume says Canada’s architectural beauty queens stand out for very different reasons
… 5. The Deanery at St. James Cathedral [formal name: St. James Cathedral Centre]
When it opened last year, this breath-taking glass pavilion quietly...

by Natalie Alcoba, National Post
The ideas don't come with a price tag, but they span the gamut - everything from building a new Gardiner next to the current one, or replacing it...
The City of Toronto and the agency in charge of waterfront...

by Elizabeth Church, The Globe and Mail
Conceptual plans to fix, improve, replace or rip down the eastern section of the Gardiner Expressway prepared three years ago by a who's-who of international firms are finally seeing the light of day.
The blue...

Canadian Architect announces the winners of the 2012 Awards of Excellence, given each year to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage. One of only two national award programs devoted exclusively to architecture, the...

Given the amount of construction underway in Toronto, it’s no surprise architecture looms almost as large as the towers its practitioners produce. These days, however, those towers are overwhelmingly residential, not commercial, as they would have...

Bay St. north of Bloor St. W. has never lived up to its potential. Despite being one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in town, it has that anonymous look you'd expect to find on the city's less prominent thoroughfares.
That started to change in...

Toronto is arguably one of those great cities whose diversity is as big as its heart. Our urban metropolis — the largest in the country — is a heady mix of many things. Neighbourhoods vary, ethnicities converge and the people who inhabit it are a...

“Stunning.”
“Sleek.”
Those were some of the adjectives used to describe the visually imposing impact of the new Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex that officially opened at Brock University Friday afternoon.
But the hundreds of...

While visiting a Rosedale house a few weeks ago, I glanced out an upstairs window and caught sight of the glistening, almost-finished tower of the new Four Seasons hotel and condo complex. I was surprised to see it, since uninterrupted summertime...

Brock University’s Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex has been dubbed a “game changer.”
Not because of its cluster of renown researchers. Not because of the cutting-edge 15,840-square-metre facility. And not because of its Biolinc...

Brock University will soon host a greenhouse that could play a big role in developing materials for bio-manufacturing and valuable drugs for pain relief and cancer treatment.
When it opens in the $111.4 million Cairns Family Health and Bioscience...

This Canary isn’t in a coal mine, but it’s just as much a sign of things ahead, in this case, entirely positive.
We’re talking about the mixed-use residential neighbourhood now under construction in the West Don Lands. Named for the greasy spoon...

When the sod was turned for the 2015 Pan American Games athletes’ village on Tuesday, it felt like a curse on Toronto’s urban fabric and memory was being lifted at last.
The place where the village will be built was, until the 1960s, a busy railway...

Already a river runs through it; but by 2015, when the Pan-Am Games begin, there’ll be a lot more than that to go with the flow.
We’re talking about the West Don Lands, of course, soon to be known as the site of the Athletes’ Village, which for...

Infrastructure Ontario and Waterfront Toronto announced today that Dundee Kilmer Developments has signed a fixed-price contract to design, build and finance the development that will be used as the Athletes’ Village during the Toronto 2015 Pan/...

Toronto’s towers have grown up, but not its citizenry. Though the real issue is how our buildings behave at street level, the city and its planners remain fixated on height.
“There needs to be intensification,” argues architect Bruce Kuwabara. “What...

A traditional topping-off ceremony was held this morning to mark a milestone in the construction of Brock’s newest research facility, and recognize the workers and contractors who are building the new structure.
More than 60 people gathered for the...